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HEJI Second Semester Guest Lectures:
- Week 5:
- Sacelia Strong-Sangster, PhD Student, Interdisciplinary Studies
- Week 6:
- Sacelia Strong-Sangster
- Week 7:
- Alexa Nussio, Director, WMU Writing Center
- Week 8:
- Kathryn Karoly, PhD Student, English (Poetry)
- Week 10:
- McGwire Hidden, Lectuerer, Philosophy
- Week 11:
- Dr. Ashley Atkins, Professor, Philosophy
- Week 12:
- Dr. Grace Tiffany, Professor, English
- Week 13:
- Dr. Zoann Snyder, Associate Professor, Sociology
- Week 14:
- Joseph D'Alphonso, Philosophy Graduate Student
- Week 15:
Dr. Todd Kucta, Chair, English
Western Michigan graduate students bring philosophy class into state prison
KALAMAZOO, MI -- Chad Watson is unlike other Western Michigan University graduate students who teach while pursuing their degree. His classroom is behind a razor-wire fence, and his students are inmates of a state prison. Watson is one of two graduate students at Western Michigan University working to build the Prison Education Outreach Program to educate inmates at the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater.
OLLI at Western Michigan University Reader's Theater
One of the OLLI at WMU courses is Senior Readers Theater in which members perform plays in the community and then hold a 30-minute talk back with the audience. This tried-and-true experience had been a great success but was taken to a new level this past August when OLLI became aware of several incarcerated people at the Lakeland Correctional Facility who were also studying theater and acting parts in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. These 22 men, ranging in age from 20 to 70, had been selected from a rigorous admissions process to attend WMU classes within the facility and work toward bachelor’s degrees.